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Sidney Easton papers
- Title
- Sidney Easton papers, 1913-1980.
- Author
- Easton, Sidney.
- Supplementary Content
- Finding aid
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Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 1 | Mixed material | Use in library | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives | |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 2 | Mixed material | Use in library | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives | |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 3 | Mixed material | Use in library | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Johnson, Helen A.
- Description
- 1.6 lin. ft. (2 archival boxes, 1 flat box)
- Donor/Sponsor
- Schomburg NEH Blacks on Stage: African American Theater Arts Collection Project.
- Subjects
- Composers
- Easton, Sidney
- Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
- Vaudeville > United States
- Johnson, Helen A
- African Americans in the performing arts
- Howell, Bert
- African American musicians
- Helen Armstead-Johnson Theater Collection
- Waters, Ethel, 1896-1977
- African American composers
- African American dramatists
- African American authors > American drama
- Actors
- Dramatists
- Note
- Photographs transferred to the Photographs and Prints Division.
- Additional material can be found in the Arts and Artifacts Division.
- Source (note)
- Helen Armstead-Johnson
- Biography (note)
- Sidney Easton was an actor, playwright and songwriter who performed in vaudeville, musicals, and films from the early 1910s to the 1950s. He formed a number of comedic acts and musical partnerships, including Easton and Easton (featuring Bob Ricketts and others), Easton and Baby Goins Joyce, Easton and (Jimmy) Stewart, and Easton and (Bert) Howell. Easton is perhaps best known for his collaboration with Tom Delaney for a song "Jump Steady Ball," the first recording by Ethel Waters. Easton and Waters went on to collaborate to produce "Go Back to Where You Stayed Last Night."
- Provenance (note)
- The collection was donated to Helen Armstead-Johnson by Easton's widow, Harriet, in the 1970s. It was subsequently donated by Helen Armstead-Johnson along with other theater related collections to the Schomburg Center.
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of: Helen Armstead-Johnson Theater Collection.
- Processing Action (note)
- Processed
- Cataloged
- OCLC
- NYPW01-A13
- Author
- Easton, Sidney.
- Title
- Sidney Easton papers, 1913-1980.
- Summary
- The Personal and Professional Papers series includes printed materials that contains information about Easton's career. The Career Information File includes sheet music written by Easton, Bert Williams, Alex Rogers, Sheldon Brooks and Clarence Muse. In addition, there is a list of performers that Easton had some association with over the span of fifty years and a scrapbook. Included in the Writings series are Easton's typescript autobiography and various undated play scripts, skits, monologues, short stories, television scripts, a screenplay, and a small file of manuscript music. The legal series includes information regarding the lawsuit he filed against 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation claiming the use of his play, "Lifeboat #3" as the basis for the film "Lifeboat." There are also notes by Helen Armstead-Johnson on Easton and his career.
- Biography
- Sidney Easton was an actor, playwright and songwriter who performed in vaudeville, musicals, and films from the early 1910s to the 1950s. He formed a number of comedic acts and musical partnerships, including Easton and Easton (featuring Bob Ricketts and others), Easton and Baby Goins Joyce, Easton and (Jimmy) Stewart, and Easton and (Bert) Howell. Easton is perhaps best known for his collaboration with Tom Delaney for a song "Jump Steady Ball," the first recording by Ethel Waters. Easton and Waters went on to collaborate to produce "Go Back to Where You Stayed Last Night."
- Provenance
- The collection was donated to Helen Armstead-Johnson by Easton's widow, Harriet, in the 1970s. It was subsequently donated by Helen Armstead-Johnson along with other theater related collections to the Schomburg Center.
- Linking Entry
- Forms part of: Helen Armstead-Johnson Theater Collection.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Johnson, Helen A.